The Fifth Estate (2013)

The Fifth Estate Synopsis

Triggering our age of high-stakes secrecy, explosive news leaks and the trafficking of classified information, WikiLeaks forever changed the game. Now, in a dramatic thriller based on real events, The Fifth Estate reveals the quest to expose the deceptions and corruptions of power that turned an Internet upstart into the 21st century’s most fiercely debated organization. The story begins as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange (Benedict Cumberbatch) and his colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg (Daniel Brühl) team up to become underground watchdogs of the privileged and powerful. On a shoestring, they create a platform that allows whistleblowers to anonymously leak covert data, shining a light on the dark recesses of government secrets and corporate crimes. Soon, they are breaking more hard news than the world’s most legendary media organizations combined. But when Assange and Berg gain access to the biggest trove of confidential intelligence documents in U.S. history, they battle each other and a defining question of our time: what are the costs of keeping secrets in a free society—and what are the costs of exposing them?"

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The Fifth Estate, the story about Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, didn’t receive an extremely wide theatrical release and didn’t manage to make back its budget theatrically. There may have not been a ton of theatrical interest, but if The Fifth Estate was one you were wanting to catch, you won’t have too long to wait.

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"I believe you are a good person, but I do not believe that this film is a good film." That's what Julian Assange had to say about The Fifth Estate way back in January, when Benedict Cumberbatch contacted him and asked to meet with Assange before playing him in the film about the controversial Wikileaks founder. Assange, who has been vocally opposed to the project since the very beginning, had no problem dismissing the film sight unseen

This was probably inevitable. Wikileaks, the organization devoted to disseminating information and spreading it far and wide, has object to the existence of the movie The Fifth Estate since it went into production, and now they've retaliated in the only way they possibly could have: by leaking the film's script. Not only that, but they include a 4,000 "internal memo" picking apart details from the film, from accusing it of being one-sided to pointing out basic inaccuracies and fictionalizations

Scripted by writer Josh Singer, whose previous credits include episodes of shows like Fringe, Lie To Me and The West Wing, The Fifth Estate tells the story of how Assange teamed up with colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg (Daniel Bruhl) to release confidential documents featuring information that the two men believed it was the right of the people to know.

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Scripted by Josh Singer (a writer on The West Wing, Lie To Me and Fringe) and based on three separate books about Assange written by Daniel Domscheit-Berg, Luke Harding and David Leigh, the new film centers on the relationship between the WikiLeaks founder (played by Benedict Cumberbatch) and Domscheit-Berg (Daniel Bruhl), an early supporter and colleague.

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Benedict Cumberbatch certainly looks the part in The Fifth Estate, in which he is playing notorious journalist Julian Assange, but apparently his subject is none too happy about the film. On Wednesday night Assange spoke during an Oxford Union debate via videolink and took part of his time to slam the upcoming movie, which is being directed by Oscar winning filmmaker Bill Condon.

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